ok my comp is getting kind of full, between 3 big computer users we hav 10 GB left i think. i was looking around, i found this external hard drive 80 GB USB for $110, i figure that should hold us for another couple of years at least. i think my 2 GB RAM should still b more then enough.

Do you really need an external drive? I mean you can get one WD 200GB 8mb cache HDD for almost the same price.

http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=22-144-129&depa=1

well how hard is it to install a hard drive?

Well assuming you're using Alienware. It should be no problem if you are the kind of person who likes to open up pc cases.

Did a google and came up with the following.

http://www.extremeoverclocking.com/articles/howto/Hard_Drive_Install.html
http://archive.gamespy.com/articles/october00/diy_harddrive/
Hope it helps.

hells ya i would like to open a computer, thanks for the sites. if i get a new hd its going to be internal and i am goin to install it.

thanks alot young, STK

No problem at all. Just take your time with the reading so you wont go wrong with the installation.

beware some PC's have older ide bus ,that will not see large HDD's
same with the pci bus get a faster card
133 at .
pc may not see this as ide;
don't put all your egg's in one basket.
I like scsi cause you can tree more hard drive's they last longer and are faster
friend of mine bought a seagate 80 gig went bad in less than a year bought another one a maxtor that went bad littl over a year
my oldest scsi's been running for over 5 years

how very true
most newer MOBO's should have updates if they don't already handle large hdd's
I just fig. all that space and one stupid thing goes bad poof all your info gone
controller for scsi not that bad now
and small scsi's sell for about $2.00 a gig
PS :
server was shut dwn last week after running for 6 months the ata133 would not come back up about 18 months old
the scsi 4 yrs old keeps on going